Chapter 162 - Indestructible Trust (1/2)

Zheng Ren instantly panicked upon hearing Xie Yiren’s despairing wail. His heart rate skyrocketed to 145 beats per minute, and his systolic pressure shot up to nearly ten centimeters above his height.

“Calm down, what’s wrong? Speak slowly.” He forcibly suppressed his discomfort and consoled Xie Yiren.

“Zheng Ren, Miao Xiaohua is dying. Please come quickly!” said Xie Yiren, her speech disorganized and her logical thought process in disarray as she continued to wail regardless of whether Zheng Ren could understand her.

He was aware that Miao Xiaohua was Xie Yiren’s best friend who had previously been hospitalized in the Sea City General Hospital gastroenterology department due to acute pancreat.i.tis secondary to binge-eating.

If he was not mistaken, the extravagant group had coincidentally met with Miao Xiaohua when they had gone for a barbeque a few days ago.

Had she not been discharged from the hospital? Why was she on the brink of death now?

However, judging from Xie Yiren’s simple explanation, Zheng Ren presumed that Miao Xiaohua had most likely gotten sick rather than fallen victim to kidnapping or other bizarre accidents.

If an emergency case was sent to the hospital and treated in time, its mortality risk would decrease drastically.

Medical facilities and various advanced equipment such as ventilators had gradually become standard in the current medical world. Even terminal patients could survive for another three days when connected to a ventilator.

“Slow down, where are you? I’m coming over now!” Even though his nerves were slightly soothed, he still cut to the heart of the matter immediately.

“The gastroenterology…” Xie Yiren’s mental state was presumably in tatters as she immediately burst into tears after managing to squeeze the address out of her throat.

Zheng Ren quickly ran out of the emergency ward. When he pa.s.sed the doctor’s office, he instructed Yang Lei to keep an eye on the house and call him in case of an emergency.

Not caring if Yang Lei had clearly heard his instructions, Zheng Ren tried his best to console Xie Yiren through the phone as he sprinted straight to the gastroenterology department in the second admission building.

Was it an acute exacerbation of pancreat.i.tis or another disease? Numerous thoughts whizzed through his mind as he tried to figure out the situation.

A few minutes later, Zheng Ren reached the gastroenterology department, out of breath.

Patients with hematemesis were often admitted to the gastroenterology department, which was why a resuscitation room was built specifically for them. At this moment, Xie Yiren was kneeling beside the bed, weeping silently while holding Miao Xiaohua’s hand firmly.

The font on the System panel on the upper right corner of Zheng Ren’s vision was painted red as if fresh blood would splatter onto the floor then and there.

A ruptured pancreatic pseudocyst complicated with hemorrhagic shock.

Uh… It was a pancreatic pseudocyst!

This uncommon disease momentarily stunned Zheng Ren.

Clinical manifestations of a pancreatic pseudocyst were mainly based on the stages of acute or chronic pancreat.i.tis.

Pseudocyst secondary to acute pancreat.i.tis was characterized by pyrexia, upper abdominal pain and tenderness, abdominal ma.s.s and distention, gastrointestinal dysfunction and so on; various compilations could occur in severe cases.

Recurrent chronic pancreat.i.tis-induced pseudocysts were usually smaller, and their main clinical features paralleled the manifestations of chronic pancreat.i.tis such as upper abdominal and lower back pain, lipid metabolism disorder, hyperglycemia and many more. Splenomegaly and upper gastrointestinal bleeding were pathognomonic of this disease.

However, there was another special complication—intracystic hemorrhage!

That was what caused Miao Xiaohua’s ruptured pancreatic pseudocyst.

An enlarged pancreatic pseudocyst could incorporate adjacent blood vessels—around the pancreas and upper abdomen—into its wall.

This included the splenic arteries and veins, along with the left and right gastric arteries and veins.

Activated pancreatic enzymes and infection could erode blood vessel walls and cause a sudden rupture and hemorrhage. Patients could develop severe persistent abdominal pain, increasing abdominal ma.s.s, signs of inflammation and also clinical manifestations of internal bleeding that would soon escalate to a state of shock.

This was a fatal condition! A series of thoughts flashed past Zheng Ren’s mind, his body automatically secreting a large amount of hormones, breaking down ATPs and releasing stored chemical energies within high-energy phosphate bonds, normalizing his heart rate at the same time.

His mind was now prepared to perform emergency resuscitation.

The nurses in the gastroenterology department had completed venous cannulation and blood sample collection in a short period of time, proving their professionalism.

Miao Xiaohua’s coat had been cut open as no one cared about its brand. No matter how expensive clothes were, were they more valuable than a life?